Cloverfield - J.J. Abrams Project

[Barty]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/

New trailer is up.

They certainly know how to market this film.

[Watashi]

Indeed.

This and The Dark Knight have had fantastic marketing campaigns.

[KK2.0]

it's a War of The Worlds type of flick but told with a Blair Witch/Cannibal Holocaust "they found this footage" narrative, nothing new...


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I'm so there opening day

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[Sycophant]

I'm really hoping this is good. I'm really, really hoping this is good.

'Cause if it sucks, it's going to suck hard.

The trailer before Beowulf got me all kinds of excited, though.

[Henry Gale]

I'm actually surprised that I am more excited after this trailer than I was with the title-less Transformers one. But it's a combination of the footage there being even more impressive than before and it only being a couple of months away now.

I can't believe this is only being made for $30 million, some of the shots there look just as good, if not better, than of the devastated NYC shots in something with a huge budget like I Am Legend.

[MadMan]

Damn that looks awesome and kind of freaky.

[Raiders]

Whoa. That's one hell of a trailer. I'm looking forward to the film, though I have suspicions that the handheld style may grow tiresome.

[megladon8]

Anyone else have sneaking suspicions that this will just end up being a Godzilla movie?

[Mysterious Dude]

Attack of the giant chipmunks?

[megladon8]

Attack of the giant chipmunks?

I thought that was military guys killing her? Probably wearing HAZMAT suits or something.


EDIT: And upon watching it a third time, I think it'll end up just bing a gimmicky monster movie, with annoyingly stupid pretty-people characters.

[Kurosawa Fan]

There's a moment in the trailer when the military is on the street firing their guns at it where my wife and I think it looks like a tentacle rips through the top of a building. It's really quick, only a few frames, and if I knew how to post it I'd do it.

I'm in agreement that it'll probably go either way, with very little middle ground. I'm leaning toward it sucking.

[Spinal]

Pass.

[megladon8]

There's a moment in the trailer when the military is on the street firing their guns at it where my wife and I think it looks like a tentacle rips through the top of a building. It's really quick, only a few frames, and if I knew how to post it I'd do it.

I'm in agreement that it'll probably go either way, with very little middle ground. I'm leaning toward it sucking.

Yeh, that's the part I was talking about...you think it looks like a tentacle? I thought it was more like an arm or something.

I'm going to be seriously pissed if the monster is never shown. I can understand saving it for later in the film, but if it never appears, that'll be pretty disappointing.

[Rowland]

I'm more interested in how convincingly it sells this "verite" ground-level perspective of the attack. I've already seen plenty of monsters.

[MadMan]

Yeh, that's the part I was talking about...you think it looks like a tentacle? I thought it was more like an arm or something.

I'm going to be seriously pissed if the monster is never shown. I can understand saving it for later in the film, but if it never appears, that'll be pretty disappointing.

I can't imagine you liking the films of Jacques Tourneur then meg, because he rarely (if ever) showed the monster or the creature. Sometimes less is more. I mean come on The Blair Witch Project's ending is incredibly scary and disturbing because we don't see any sort of witch, creature or monster. I'll take never seeing the monster and conjoring up what it looks like in my head over seeing a bad CGI creature that looks like the shitty American Godzilla from the 1998 Godzilla flick that was utterly terrible.